Bucharest - In the age of young women has had a grandchild. At the age of 23 years, the Romanian woman has become the world's youngest grandmother.

Such as reported by British tabloid The Sun and the Straits Times daily reported.

Woman named Rifca Stanescu was married and had children at a very young age. Rifca married when she was only 11 years. Her husband, Ionel Stanescu also still very young. He was at that time, 13 years old.

From the wedding, the couple was blessed with two very young baby. First child, a baby girl named Maria, was born Rifca when he was 12 years old. A year later Rifca birth to her second child, a baby boy named Nicolae.

Rifca, a young mother who is now 25-year-old had hoped she would not follow in his footsteps who married young. But the fruit falls not far from the tree. Mary married when aged 10 years and six months after the wedding, Mary gave birth to a baby boy, Ion.

Now Ion was 2.5 years old. "I am happy to be a grandmother but expect more to Mary," said Rifca at The Sun.

Rifca family lived in a gypsy community. According Rifca, in their culture is commonplace to get engaged and married at a young age.